Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-02-19
rnR ~ CURIOUS.

A SVNCkTNN tNAAN pOoNuAnNN
Nox that IS covered with silver plate
ACulNysE lady with q W and one-hali
,n,h foot IS 10 be seen at o dire show III
New York
rorsrYrx clocks keep the INT at the
Stst&house in Augusta Me, all eightuaS,
Two of the clocks are over forty years oil
age
A RrsIpENr Of ~Strahaye, Pa, possesses
A set Of double teeth with which he can
hite A nail in two, crack a walnut and hit
a keE Of beer.
TKy Bachelors Club Of Philadelphia asks
All men 10 resign when they marry, except
those who take widows FOR HE compah
ions These are expelled
GyoSav JErrYRs, a MERGED County (Cal.)
farmer. became respondent over the pros
r,a,' Of a drv season and hanged himself.
The next day the rains began,
MANUEL BtRRllNr and his wife Marls
have celebrated the eightieth anniversary
cf their marriage AZ Matamoras, Mexico
The husband is lO2 and the wife ~
rur cave animals of North America, ac'
>,niing 10 Prof A. s Packard, comprise a
,o'SlaflT species Of blind creatures, nearly
all 81 which are mostly white in color.
AVlRsIxlA Justice Of the peace has tnec
q fisherman seven dollars for contendins
M opeu court that the moon had any thing
II do with the ebb and flow Of the tides.
JOSEPH II. CHoArg has ascertaiued that
there were no lawyers in New England fo'
the first half century Of its existence.
These were indeed good old times says
a tacetious exchange.
\ NvNBgR Of geological specimens have
teen discovered in excavations at a coal
NINE near Santa Rosa, Cal, among them
beds Of clam shells, looking fresh and
bright as If just taken from their native
bed.
WHEN q horse strays away during a
storm or a high wind, be sure he went IN
the direction Of the wind. \ horse breads
D wind IN his lace. WITH sneep the con-
irary is the case. The sheep faces the
storm.-Trp1 Times
\ FAMOUS dog trainer educates his dogs
by simply talking to them, He uses neither
: nor whip, but tries to make the dog
understand what he is to do. He then per-
forms the trick himself, and the dogs fol-
low and initiate him. -BoStoH BtdlstiI
A eIRL working in one of the Biddeford,
Me- mills is the thirty-second child OF
the same father and mother, and twenty
three Of her brothers and sisters still live
and write 70 her every week. She receives
more letters than any woman in Bildeford.
A YorNG man Of Brunswick, (Ga) went
duck hunting. and while at least a mile
away from the city fired at q duck with q
- . .--z Ia III, hail .,,p,n 80 tho
city ana went through the door Of a resi-
denCe on Newcastle street, Just missing =
child's head-N !, san.
THERE Is a family in Polk County, Ga,
whose children possess names that are, TO
say the least, rather original. They answer
to the following Cognomens; MollIe Neck
lane, Quincy Ann, SIS Tommie, Happy Josie,
Nestor Chester and | Wonder. 1t is said
that the happy mother takes pride in call
ing each child by its full name,
One day last year a New York youth
wandered into a cigar store, and buying q
cigar lighted it with an alcohol lighter.
On returning the Light to the tube an eX-
plosion took place and the young man was
severely burned about the face. Recently
he recovered one hundred dollars damages
from the proprietor Of the store.
A GENTLEMAN Of our acquaintance, a
former resident Of this town, has re.
Gently celebrated his eighty third birth
day, and IN token of the fact that his eye.
sight has not yet failed him, and that his
nerves remain steady, he sent us a slip of
paper, the exact dimensions of a postal
card, on which he has written with perfect
distinctness words containing in all co.'s
letters. - NorfiStonn LsrSeymdn
THERE was a belief among the people of
the olden time that if you built "a new house
and finished it the owner would not live
long; but if you left any part thereof I'M
completed you would live until it was done.
Governor Wilson Lumkin is said to have
had this superstition, and when he con
structed the rock house on the hill over.
looking the cemetery he left one window
unfinished, and it 80 remains until to-day.
We learn that this is not the only old
house in Athens whose owner had this be
c f.-AtheiS (Gd.) Banner.
A CITIZEN of Kingston, N. Y, who is un,
fortunate enough to be the husband of &
woman who owns all the money in the
possession Of the pair, adopted a move
scheme the other day to make a raise Of
| small sum, He went TO n hat store, Sc
cured a t%wo-dollar hat, and arranged will
the merchant to bring in his wife to pay
for it, when the merchant was to charg,
four dollars and pay him the difference
The man brought his wife, who, after ad
miring him in his new hat, reluctantly pait
| the four dollars and the couple left
Shortly afterward the mar returned, go
the other two dollars and departed happy
Troy Times,